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SCOKESBY ELECT JON.(prom a correspondent.),,. A considerable amount of.energy and excitement w«b displayed nt Scores!3- on Thursday lost on tlie occasion of t)io election for a member to represent tlie-ratepuyors ol ScorcBby Riding id . tbe Berwick Shir Cuuncil.' The interest in the1 election wru-prenilv increased as a plebiscite was 10 !■ taken or. the question whether the Fcrntrcr Gully Hotel was ro be ollmyeri 10 remain on tbe ruitd, or whether the proprietor should remove same. This may apju-ar to the uninitiated rather a novc-l manner of transacting the business or the Shire, or of lliroivim* the onns on the ratepayers-instead of tlnnr representatives, hut it nj^ioars that. Councillor Dohson had received, some kind o! pledge from his- colleagues tlint if' the majority of the ratepayers in the Riding decided that the hotel in- question was un obstruction, or‘ iricuuvenieuce to the public, they.would at once - issue - n riiaudaro 'fur Us removal. ‘I he question. time nntumlly suggests itself to an nnloukcr Ls, wlmt possible, euuil can ,d vote on‘a question of this kind do? No possible benefit cun• In-derived from such n farcical transaction, lull much ill-feeling and party-sp.irii,may ho engendered thereby.' ''matters of this kind require, no doubt-'to lie dealt wiili in 'a firin. impartial manner, and the cause for a plebiscite on'this question displays weakness to n certain dpgree,’ at nny rate, in’, some* of our local boilies.^p Without entcrinjf info the merits of tbe case;it does seem strange that a Council cannot'divine whether the ratepayers are inconvenienced by. a-'.building projecting beyond ilib prescribed boundary or noL The two candidates' who wooed for municipal honors:werc^-Meslsri'i.vDixuu nml Charsley—The; result.5otVibiT:poll S'showed Clwrslpy 1*28,•Disoif 103,-^giving'n majority of 25 lor.ClVarsley' * T(ic resiilt'ot tlie’plehia-cite was as follows :-rFor.. the 'hotel 1-to re*-mnin an nt present' l2o. For the lintel to lie removed 09.’. 'Majority .'for tbo* building ia remain on the roml’SG. After the result* of tlie poll'bad lilt;-on received, and the cLre’ring of the victorious: parly had been- exhausted, 3Ir. Charsloy -in a-short pithy speech, thanked-:the-electors'-lor the position in which they had - pined biih; remarking nr, the stun** time that In: Imped he sn*»iild merit the cmifiileuce.placed in,.him'. ’ T11 referring to Ferniri*f.,Gully-l. Hotel, lie siiiil -tb«il:ho was unwilling that,aiiy' port *,uf our roads sliouid he forfeited, but as the * hoteh'had. been built unwittingly ' on the 'roid'helwiis; in favor ol its remaining* os-at present'.; • .Mr. Dunn moved.,,n .yutu'of 'tlii|nks4-,t'o.'t!ie Returning Ufficer.'aud-thanked-'those who hail voted in his-.' luvorJ-. -Mr. Edmond 'Ajhlry-thon os owner of the.property -.on wlticlf.The1 vota had-been , taken .fhonked • the-electors' for deciding in his! .interest,' and tdpk.’tlieIiWtvof stdting that -lift looked •npohthtf., - t . •. o • . • •, t t -• I • ' -* ’• -• \ • - -' • *| •• » - *• ’whole proceedings in connection :witli .-•tin affair as . nn enlleavqnr ^to'j prjwi^jite. .on, honest uiari. V.TIier electors'ithiiii ■ quickly.wended the]r, way. towards vbuaie,'.and'.tljus,ended, perhaps,- the most excitable' electionj ever wiiuCssed.ih'Scoresby'.*' r......nix per *c u gla-'S e-hot tins of for a:ilc,rrfor npproinondatimcominissitchairmanminutrd iwide jurreceivi-d£Truly, Cai.nndjlhe'A 'will: he re
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Mornington South Bourke and Mornington Journal
Mornington, Victoria, AU
Wed, Aug 18, 1880
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